Evolution (Evolution)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 10:20 (5548 days ago) @ David Turell

It strikes me as a bit desperate if you have to go back to citing a 1920s Catholic propagandist like Chesterton against evolution! Whoever the "Darwinians" were that he knew they were pretty feeble if they couldn't "explain" how the rhinoceros got his horn or the camel his hump! The idea that a partial horn or partial hump is of no use for thumping rivals or storing some nutrition is obviously not so. A small one serves the purpose, one too big also serves the purpose, and the optimum is evidently between the two extremes, and so is likely to survive. - The first to use the term Darwinism was probably Alfred Russel Wallace who wrote a book with that title, but he intended it to honour Darwin. Subsequent propagandists use it disparagingly. Like a political term such as "Thatcherism" or "Marxism". (Even Marx said he was not a Marxist!)

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GPJ